A large nuclear reactor can generate enough steam to generate power for a whole city and creates about 1 kilogram of waste. That’s brilliant! It sounds really environmentally friendly – too good to be true. . .

It is and we’ll look at the rest of the story – the part they don’t tell you!

Now the rest of the truth truth:

That 1 kg of waste is so toxic that if it was dissolved and sprayed over 10 cities, it would kill everyone within 5 years, including all mammalian wildlife.

Anyone leaving the area after the spraying would develop cancer within 5 years.

Children born from people who left the city soon after the spraying, would have an extremely high risk of birth defects and developing cancer. The risk would decrease by 25% for each generation of their children.

The level of this toxicity would take 250,000 years to decrease by half. If you went back 250,000 years later, those cities would still be lethal.

The toxic material will be concentrated in the food chain. Plants will draw the radioactive toxic waste out of a wide area of contaminated soil where it would be concentrated in their leaves, stems and especially their fruits and flowers.

Is Nuclear power still the ideal power source, now you have heard the whole truth?

But it gets worse . . .

If I had a kilogram of dioxin – the most toxic man made poison, I could safely keep it in a sealed container under the kitchen sink – not the wisest place perhaps but nonetheless, still safe as long as the container remains sealed. I couldn’t do the same with a kilogram of nuclear waste. The radiation would make the 15 homes on either side, unsafe for habitation. The toxicity extends far beyond the actual toxin. People nearby would begin to feel nauseous and develop sunburn like symptoms as their hair fell out and their skin ulcerated. Their bone marrow cells would die and the loss of red blood cells would cause leukemia like symptoms.

Generally speaking, it is difficult to convey to people just how toxic this material is. It almost defies belief !